Linux-Misc Digest #907, Volume #26 Wed, 24 Jan 01 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
Recommended AVI/MPEG videoplayer? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: EASY linux question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to use accented characters in BitchX? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Booting with no console ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux not free anymore? (Roger Blake)
Re: Partition overlapped ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: rpm extract files? (-ljl-)
Re: Partition overlapped ("Peter T. Breuer")
Suche programm, dass prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls neustartet (Bernhard
Strathewerd)
Re: Partition overlapped (Yvan Loranger)
Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3 (David)
Re: delay getting login when connecting via telnet or ftp (Grant Edwards)
Re: Which prog for streaming ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please ! ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: rpm extract files? ("Julius Longauer")
Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation? (Rick Baartman)
PA-RISC? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mutiple Boot ("Chang")
Re: VMWare: Problem installing guest OS Win98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mutiple Boot (Grant Edwards)
setting the time on HW (Louis Guillaume)
Re: PA-RISC? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boot-Cd ("Dirk Riebesell")
Re: Mutiple Boot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: scripting question (Dwight Tovey)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Recommended AVI/MPEG videoplayer?
Date: 24 Jan 2001 15:02:46 GMT
Before I start d/loading any more of these players, I'd like to hear from
you ppl. I would like the least amount of d/loads, too; preferably a
complete standalone package. I have Mandrake 6.0, 2-2.13mdk kernel on a
slow connection. I have sound working.
xanim need this, aktion needs that, kmpg yadda yadda
What works for you?
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: EASY linux question
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:21:02 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] did eloquently scribble:
> hello linux wizards:
> whenever i enter:
> vi -g
> in 'hopes' of getting vim to behave in a gui mode under GNOME, i get the
> message:
> "not compiled with gui option"
> any thoughts or ideas?? i would love to use the gui mode vim.
Simple... Recompile it WITH gui mode or download a precompiled copy with it
built in.
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| Computer Science | - Father Jack in "Father Ted" |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to use accented characters in BitchX?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:06:01 +0000
GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> As I can use accented chars with other apps, I am sure it's a
> BitchX specific setting, or it's a bug... :(
> I hope someone from Europe use BitchX with national chars,
> and can tell me how to set it up... :)
Not much help, but there's an accented 'u' on the pound key in the UK
keyboard map...
:)
(That and the 1/4 symbol are the only non-ascii characters I've been able to
enter).
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| Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf |
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting with no console
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:35:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In alt.os.linux.slackware Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
>>> keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
>>> hda: WDC WD307AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive
> Okay, maybe I wa a little liberal in my interpretation of "errors". But I've
> also gotten advisories similar to the original poster of this thread:
> cmd640: drive1 timings/prefetch(on) preserved
> keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
> keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
> hda: ST51080A, ATA DISK drive
>> But what is your kernel? Those are not standard kernel messages. I've
>> just grepped the entire 2.2.18 source tree and not located "AT keyboard"!
> Antface:~$ uname -a
> Linux Antface 2.2.17 #1 Sat Nov 18 10:33:37 PST 2000 i586 unknown
Well. try and locate the "AT keyboard not present" message in your kernel
source, and let me know where it comes from. I don't see it at all in
2.2.18. "not present" is present, but not in conjunction with
"keyboard". The nearest I can find is
/usr/src/linux/drivers/sbus/char/sunkbd.c: printk("keyboard: not present\n");
The "noisy" message comesfrom:
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c: printk(KERN_WARNING "keyboard:
Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?\n");
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/pc_keyb.o:<4>keyboard: Too many NACKs --
noisy kbd cable?
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/char.a:<4>keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy
kbd cable?
Yes .. as you can see, I searched object files and archives and even
the kernel image too.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:29:58 GMT
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:14:11 GMT, Stewart Honsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>May I ask how long this "communist" digression has been taking place here?
If you've been a Usenet participant for long at all (and I've been here
since the early 1980s) you already know that topic drift is common. It's
been around practically since day one and it's not going to go away any
time soon, moderated newsgroups excepted of course.
>Is Tux really an agent of Stalin?!?
Maybe (with apologies to Orwell) an agent of Goldstein?
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition overlapped
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:17:13 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> >> > /dev/hda1 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux
>> >> > /dev/hda2 65 319 2048287+ 83 Linux
>> >> > /dev/hda3 * 320 1057 5927985 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>> >> > /dev/hda4 1058 2491 11518605 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
>> >> > /dev/hda5 * 2085 2491 3269196 b Win95 FAT32
>> >> > /dev/hda6 1058 2084 8249314+ 83 Linux
> I was not referring to overlapping partitions, but to the wrong ordering
> of partitions.
> hda5 and hda6 are swapped.
There's nthing wrong with that.
> I know *how* it can be done, but I can't understand *why*
Why not? It doesn't matter, until you try and use a too-dumb partition
editor on it!
> Unless you delete something first, you won't get a table like this.
> (And btw. there's no overlap here)
Exactly.
Peter
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: rpm extract files?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:25:42 GMT
In article <zvqb6.76457$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ed Aihua Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How to extract the files of a rpm files without
> install the package?
> I want to extract the files to a some directory.
>
> I tried:
> rpm -i --force --root dir xxx.rpm
> it doesn't work.
Try:
rpm2cpio XXX.rpm | cpio -i -d
or
rpm2cpio XXX.rpm > XXX.cpio
cpio -i < XXX.cpio
believe you could use alien too.
Look at:
man rpm2cpio
man cpio
man alien
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition overlapped
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:28:16 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Unless you delete something first, you won't get a table like this.
>> (And btw. there's no overlap here)
> Exactly.
Actually, we're wrong. You can create that table by leaving gaps with
fdisk, then filling them in later.
Peter
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From: Bernhard Strathewerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suche programm, dass prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls neustartet
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:39:53 +0100
Hallo!
Ich suche ein Programm, dass Prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls
neustartet.
Ueber Tips waehre ich sehr dankbar!
Cu
Bernhard Strathewerd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: Partition overlapped
Date: 24 Jan 2001 12:12:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
> In article <ttq56.31002$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On 05 Jan 2001 16:11:52 -0400, * Tong * wrote:
>> >I used the partition-magic to partition my HD. Then installed RH6.2
>> >in it. When I installed the RH, RH complained that my partitions are
>> >overlapped. But I didn't have any problems up till now, when I was
>> >trying to install the vmware. Vmware also complained that my
>> >partitions are overlapped and what's worse, refused to make use of
>> >the win98 partition.
>> >
>> >So I installed the gnu-parted and tried to resize and move around my
>> >partitions a bit:
>> >
>> >- - - -
>> >(parted) rm 6
>> >(parted) mkpart logical ext2 8292 16346
>> >(parted) print
>> >Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0-19547.2 megabytes
>> >Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
>> >1 0.0 502.0 primary ext2
>> >2 502.0 2502.3 primary ext2
>> >3 2502.3 8291.4 primary FAT boot
>> >4 8291.4 19540.0 extended
>> >6 8291.4 16347.4 logical
>> >5 16347.4 19540.0 logical FAT boot
>> > [snip]
If I remember right - Some operating systems look at the Start & End
numbers to delineate a partition; others look at the Start & add the Size
[not shown above]. Unfortunately [esp. in these days of large disks] the 2
methods don't always correspond - 1 method detecting overlap. Fixed size
integers trying to store too-large quantities [overflow] is the culprit.
Try reading some of the HOWTOs or mini-HOWTOs relating to disks &
partitions.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:53:49 GMT
Eric wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure if this is the case in your system, but here, pump is
> overwriting /etc/resolv.conf
> Setting up the correct pump.conf would have prevented it to do so.
>
> Eric
This may be correct but some of us don't run pump or even have it
installed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: delay getting login when connecting via telnet or ftp
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:54:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Litho Man wrote:
>Until recently I have had no problems. In the past couple of days,
>however, when I go to telnet or ftp into my server I connect, but there
>is about a 60 second delay before I get the login prompt.
Your Linux system is trying to look up the host name that goes
with the IP from which you are connecting. It isn't finding a
nameserver and timing out.
>I have noticed on reboot that eth0 (the only network device) takes
>about as long to start as well.
The system is probably trying to determine it's own hostname
using a reverse DNS lookup -- and timing out.
>HELP!!!
Your /etc/resolv.conf file is probably broken.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Today, THREE WINOS
at from DETROIT sold me a
visi.com framed photo of TAB HUNTER
before his MAKEOVER!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which prog for streaming
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:04:11 GMT
Hi,
sorry for my obscure name, privacy reasons,
and sorry for hopping in the middle of a thread - just trying to stay
near to the topic i'm wondering about.
Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You should start your backups with nohup and &, let tar write the
> blocks it writes to nohup.out, use a non rewinding device eg.
> /dev/nst0 the first time you use it,
>
> if it's done try the mt tell option to get the block the tape stoped,
> now last_block_from_nohup.out/block_mt_tell_done gives you the factor
> you have to devide other block_numbers from the nohup.out, now you can
> position (mt seek) your tape in a few seconds and read the file you
> want...:-)
Nice idea, and we'd give it a try (using '>> logfile' instead of
nohup.out), from what we learned:
the calculation is not very exact, when seeking a file you have to give
some offset before the calculated value for the mt command. In the first
try we needed more then 25 tape-blocks (500 tar-blocks) less than
calculated (in a ~80000 tar-block archive), otherwise we got 'not found
in archive'. Reasons may be that tar annonces only the starting block of
the last file, compression?, lax calculation, rounding problems, 0
versus 1 for start value and so on, not a big issue, just beginners
should try their system before trusting it!!!
Also we learned to read the whole thing, we run tar with the -W option
(verify), in the verify section it announces block numbers continued
from the last written block - i think this is a real bug-, so when
reading the log you may *not* take the block numbers from the verify
entrys for the calculation!
As far as it matters our system: SuSE 6.3, GNU tar 1.13.17 used without
compression, Compaq DLT 4000 with compression.
Regarding the other topics, we had very good and very bad experiences
with all tested commercial backup programms under windows and novell,
for little and medium size linux systems tar looks much better, also
it's not 'self explaining' and lacks functionality as crc, qfa,
archiving and so on.
We'd like very much to get a scripted shell for tar, there have been
projects in the past, 'backup' and 'tob' from karel kubat, but we could
not find any actual version :-(
Bernhard S.
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please !
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:18:43 -0500
* "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've searched far and wide, but no avail. No one has created a web page
> with detailed, step-by-step instructions on upgrading the kernel to
> 2.4.
There is:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
2.4.0 is in no way different with respect to the process of setting it up
than any other version.
-Jan
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If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete
themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell
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From: "Julius Longauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: rpm extract files?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:23:10 +0100
Ed Aihua Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How to extract the files of a rpm files without
> install the package?
> I want to extract the files to a some directory.
>
> I tried:
> rpm -i --force --root dir xxx.rpm
> it doesn't work.
>
Check if xxx.rpm is a relocatable package with:
rpm -qp --queryformat '%{defaultprefix}\n" xxx.rpm
Ifthe command displays a path, the package is relocatable
and you can install it under dir with:
rpm -i --prefix dir xxx.rpm
> e.g.
> [root@quark /tmp]# rpm -q -l -p newsx-1.3-3.src.rpm
> newsx-1.3.spec
> newsx-1.3.tar.gz
> How can I get the tar.gz file?
>
AFAIK you can't. But you can convert the binary rpm into
a cpio archive (with rpm2cpio) and extract the files from there
(with cpio).That is, what mc does (perhaps).
For details see man rpm2cpio, man cpio and
http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/node43.html#6518
Julius
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From: Rick Baartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation?
Date: 24 Jan 2001 09:16:21 -0800
Use xkeycaps, available at http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ and configure your
keypad any way you like. xkeycaps is basically a user friendly interface
for xmodmap and it will output a key definition file which you run xmodmap
on each time you start X.
I as well still use the old DEC keypad def's. Attached is my xmodmap file
for what is now a fairly typical 104-key keyboard including Windows start
keys (Which BTW I assign to Mod4 for Meta in Emacs). You may want to use it
directly, but be warned, it also changes other things (see the commented
stuff at the start).
One additional word: You cannot re-assign key defs with xkeycaps unless all
your 'Lock' keys are off.
--
rick
!
! This is an `xmodmap' input file for
! PC 104 key, wide Delete, short Enter (XFree86; US) keyboards.
! Automatically generated on Tue Jan 23 16:31:39 2001 by baartman with
! XKeyCaps 2.46; Copyright (c) 1999 Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
! http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
!
! This file makes the following changes:
!
! The "Print Screen" key generates F13 and Execute
! The "Scroll Lock" key generates F14, and has no modifiers
! The "Pause" key generates F15 and Break
! The "Num Lock" key generates KP_F1 and Pointer_EnableKeys, and has no modifiers
! The "/" key generates KP_F2
! The "*" key generates KP_F3
! The "-" key generates KP_F4
! The "7 Home" key generates KP_7 and KP_7
! The "8 UpArrow" key generates KP_8 and KP_8
! The "9 Pg Up" key generates KP_9 and KP_9
! The "+" key generates KP_Separator
! The "Caps Lock" key generates Control_L, and the Control modifier
! The "4 LeftArrow" key generates KP_4 and KP_4
! The "5" key generates KP_5 and KP_5
! The "6 RightArrow" key generates KP_6 and KP_6
! The "1 End" key generates KP_1 and KP_1
! The "2 DownArrow" key generates KP_2 and KP_2
! The "3 Pg Dn" key generates KP_3 and KP_3
! The "##" key generates NoSymbol
! The "0 Ins" key generates KP_0 and KP_0
! The ". Del" key generates KP_Decimal and KP_Decimal
keycode 0x09 = Escape
keycode 0x43 = F1
keycode 0x44 = F2
keycode 0x45 = F3
keycode 0x46 = F4
keycode 0x47 = F5
keycode 0x48 = F6
keycode 0x49 = F7
keycode 0x4A = F8
keycode 0x4B = F9
keycode 0x4C = F10
keycode 0x5F = F11
keycode 0x60 = F12
keycode 0x6F = F13 Execute
keycode 0x4E = F14
keycode 0x6E = F15 Break
keycode 0x31 = grave asciitilde
keycode 0x0A = 1 exclam
keycode 0x0B = 2 at
keycode 0x0C = 3 numbersign
keycode 0x0D = 4 dollar
keycode 0x0E = 5 percent
keycode 0x0F = 6 asciicircum
keycode 0x10 = 7 ampersand
keycode 0x11 = 8 asterisk
keycode 0x12 = 9 parenleft
keycode 0x13 = 0 parenright
keycode 0x14 = minus underscore
keycode 0x15 = equal plus
keycode 0x16 = BackSpace
keycode 0x6A = Insert
keycode 0x61 = Home
keycode 0x63 = Prior
keycode 0x4D = KP_F1 Pointer_EnableKeys
keycode 0x70 = KP_F2
keycode 0x3F = KP_F3
keycode 0x52 = KP_F4
keycode 0x17 = Tab ISO_Left_Tab
keycode 0x18 = q Q
keycode 0x19 = w W
keycode 0x1A = e E
keycode 0x1B = r R
keycode 0x1C = t T
keycode 0x1D = y Y
keycode 0x1E = u U
keycode 0x1F = i I
keycode 0x20 = o O
keycode 0x21 = p P
keycode 0x22 = bracketleft braceleft
keycode 0x23 = bracketright braceright
keycode 0x33 = backslash bar
keycode 0x6B = Delete
keycode 0x67 = End
keycode 0x69 = Next
keycode 0x4F = KP_7 KP_7
keycode 0x50 = KP_8 KP_8
keycode 0x51 = KP_9 KP_9
keycode 0x56 = KP_Separator
keycode 0x42 = Control_L
keycode 0x26 = a A
keycode 0x27 = s S
keycode 0x28 = d D
keycode 0x29 = f F
keycode 0x2A = g G
keycode 0x2B = h H
keycode 0x2C = j J
keycode 0x2D = k K
keycode 0x2E = l L
keycode 0x2F = semicolon colon
keycode 0x30 = apostrophe quotedbl
keycode 0x24 = Return
keycode 0x53 = KP_4 KP_4
keycode 0x54 = KP_5 KP_5
keycode 0x55 = KP_6 KP_6
keycode 0x32 = Shift_L
keycode 0x34 = z Z
keycode 0x35 = x X
keycode 0x36 = c C
keycode 0x37 = v V
keycode 0x38 = b B
keycode 0x39 = n N
keycode 0x3A = m M
keycode 0x3B = comma less
keycode 0x3C = period greater
keycode 0x3D = slash question
keycode 0x3E = Shift_R
keycode 0x62 = Up
keycode 0x57 = KP_1 KP_1
keycode 0x58 = KP_2 KP_2
keycode 0x59 = KP_3 KP_3
keycode 0x6C = KP_Enter
keycode 0x25 = Control_L
keycode 0x73 = Meta_L
keycode 0x40 = Alt_L
keycode 0x41 = space
keycode 0x71 = Alt_R
keycode 0x74 = Meta_R
keycode 0x75 = NoSymbol
keycode 0x6D = Control_R
keycode 0x64 = Left
keycode 0x68 = Down
keycode 0x66 = Right
keycode 0x5A = KP_0 KP_0
keycode 0x5B = KP_Decimal KP_Decimal
clear Shift
clear Lock
clear Control
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
clear Mod3
clear Mod4
clear Mod5
add Shift = Shift_L Shift_R
add Control = Control_L Control_R Control_L
add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
add Mod4 = Meta_L Meta_R
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PA-RISC?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:10:11 GMT
Is there a Linux OS ported to PA-RISC? I'm looking for something to
run on an HP 712/80 workstation.
Thanks
Tim J. Arland
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From: "Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mutiple Boot
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:23:15 -0800
Hi guys, can I just find out whether u can have a mutiple boot on a single
hdd?
i hope to make my pc bootable from linux, win98 and winnt..is it possible?
rgds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VMWare: Problem installing guest OS Win98
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:32:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > > I have been trying to install Win98 as a guest host on my Linux
system.
> > > The partition I plan to use for Win98 is /dev/hda3. I have tried
toggling
> > the
> > > partition id to FAT16, ext2 and FAT12.
> > >
> > > I am trying to install the Win98 on a virtual disk and not to a raw
> > partition.
>
> If you want a virtual disk, then you really want a file on your Linux
> partition. Mine is in my /home/steve/vm directory.
>
> If you want to put the Win98 system onto /dev/hda3, then you will have
> to specify raw disk.......
>
> Virtual disk is easy and you don't have to mess with your
> partitions....but it is limited to 2GB (per virtual disk - you can have
> multiple virtual disks). It doesn't start at 2GB...but it can grow up to
> that.
>
> Steve
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Steve Withers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Registered Linux user #24688
> http://counter.li.org
>
Steve is right. the virtual disk setup uses a file in the ~/vm/
directory. It doesn't require any partition setup. Just pop the win98
cd in the drive when you power on the virtual machine and follow the
install intructions. Very easy.
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Mutiple Boot
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:44:48 GMT
In article <94n2vj$tqv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chang wrote:
>Hi guys, can I just find out whether u can have a mutiple boot on a single
>hdd?
Sure.
>i hope to make my pc bootable from linux, win98 and winnt..is it possible?
I've done that on several machines. It's easiest if you
install the OSes in order of decreasing dumbness:
1) Install Win98
2) Install WinNT
3) Install Linux
That way each of the OSes is aware of the ones that are already
there and knows how to play well with them. 98 is aware of
nothing, and can't play well with anything else on the disk.
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From: Louis Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setting the time on HW
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:47:25 -0500
Hello,
I am running red hat linux 6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20smp on a dual pentium pro
machine.
The time can be correctly set using "date" or "ntpdate" but everytime I
reboot the time goes off. Running ntpd is an option but I would rather not
have that turned on as I am trying to limit the number of services running
on this machine. Also, attacking the source of the problem is always better!
I imagine there is some way to set the time on the hardware from within
linux, does anyone know how?
Louis Guillaume
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PA-RISC?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:39:55 GMT
In article <94n299$dcp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a Linux OS ported to PA-RISC? I'm looking for something to
> run on an HP 712/80 workstation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim J. Arland
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Go to http://parisc-linux.org/index.html
This page has information on the porting of linux to PA-RISC, there is
also a workable image somewhere on there page.
Paul
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From: "Dirk Riebesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot-Cd
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:52:14 +0100
Hi,
Does anybody have any experiences in Bootable-CDs under Linux. I Try to
start my complete little Server (only Daemons) from a CD. KOnCD supports
Linux boot-cd. But how to prepare??? I need an Bootimage file, vmlinuz????
or what file ???
Thanks for any Help!!!
Dirk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mutiple Boot
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:54:42 GMT
In article <94n2vj$tqv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys, can I just find out whether u can have a mutiple boot on a
single
> hdd?
> i hope to make my pc bootable from linux, win98 and winnt..is it
possible?
>
> rgds
>
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>
This is possible and if you would like a very good walk-thru go to
linuxnewbie.org and go into the NHF (newbie help file) and then go to OS
booting there is a nice section on how to triple boot 98,NT and linux.
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From: Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scripting question
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:49:53 -0700
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Matt Gross wrote:
> My problem is that the only way that I can connect to the machine that has
> the data is through telnet. I highly doubt that the Unix admin for that
> machine will want to grant me auto-login access. Does this bring me back to
> using expect?
>
You can use 'expect' to do this, but that then has the security
problem of leaving your password for the remote machine stored in
plain text in the script on your local machine.
Do you need to control the process from your local machine? Probably
the ideal way to do this would be to use 'cron' on the remote
data-owning machine to kick off the sql script, then use 'rcp' or
'ftp' (or even better, 'scp' with 'ssh-agent' for secure transmission)
to send the results to your local machine.
/dwight
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